Gun Photos: 30 Classic Combat Handguns

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Nichole Wierzba | Jun 12, 2012 | Comments 1

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The short barrel of the Bernardelli limited the size of recoil spring that could be used. Recoil buffer can be seen just below the barrel.

This photo gallery is an excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of Classic Combat Handguns.

The Gun Digest Book of Classic Combat Handguns is an absolutely unique compilation of articles celebrating the greatest combat pistols of all time, as they originally appeared in the world’s greatest firearms annual, Gun Digest, from 1944 to present.

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1. Blacklion66 says:

   December 3, 2012 at 9:46 am

   Sorry but the author seems to have wondered very far from the subject, a combat hand gun must be simple and rel1able under the worst of conditions, then to top it off the round it fires must have stopping power. outside of the plain jane 1911, the handguns shown are not combat handguns

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